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  • If she has power of attorney, which if your father is too disabled to handle paperwork she should, then she can do what she sees fit with it. If he retains some faculties it might be nice to ask him what he would like to do with some of it. If she doesn't have power of attorney, she should get it.
  • Unless she has power of attourney over his affairs/estate then the answer is no, she can't do what she wants with it. He would have to give her power of attourney or apply for a deed of variance when the inheritance comes through so that the money passes straight to her and becomes her legal property. If that's what he wants to do, of course.

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